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The Hayward fault seems to have the most seismic activity lately. You'll feel them 2+ times a year in the East Bay--especially if you're in an older, multi-story building when it s…

Goal #1: Don't let the users "get screwed." Goal #2: Don't have a solution that requires an army of people to manage. If no one's willing to help fund your idea, you're out of luck…

This all makes sense to me. If you're not providing enough value to users to cover the >$15k fee, you're just an attack vector for user data. Consistency of the process aside, I'm …

Google Maps is a travel powerhouse. Makes sense to have things in one place. I’m traveling Europe right now and I live out of Google Maps.

This is an in-joke at Google.

I'm a Full-Stack developer at Google, which is fairly uncommon given the complexity of systems here. The chief trait of a Full Stack developer, in my opinion, is often just growing…

Uh, you realize that imap support has been in GMail for its entire history?

There are contractual obligations around changes to GSuite products (and their APIs).

On a related note: LED light bulbs often emit radio frequencies and all of the ones I’ve tried so far interfere with my garage door. Which was insanely hard to figure out. (Garage …

Imagine you have ~billions of users and 99.9% of them use the default. Do you put your eng effort towards power-user flexibility for the tinfoil hat crowd or do you improve popular…

This is hilarious. Every single Google conspiracy is basically because some Google Engineer tried to DRY up functionality in an insanely complicated system.

China has a long history of imperialism. They even tried attacking Vietnam after its war with the US and failed.

In my experience, Developers who deviate from the norms are able to support themselves. Data Scientists are generally more dependent on support and infra from the rest of the org.

It's amazing that Apple seems to be holding on to their grudge against Nvidia... to their own detriment. You haven't been able to buy a Mac/Macbook Pro with an Nvidia chip for many…

Meal kits waste an incredible amount of plastic. Using it felt immoral.

Installing a foam roof or replacing the insulation in your walls goes a long way and saves a lot of money on energy costs over time.

In North Charleston, the pace of production has quickened. Starting this year, Boeing is producing 14 Dreamliners a month, split between North Charleston and Everett, up from the p…

Lmao at every critical Apple comment getting downvotes. What Apple service routinely gets feature enhancements every year? Apple cannot walk and chew gum at the same time.

Apple has completely lost its way under Cook that it’s now just rent seeking. They’re just scrambling to fill a $$$ hole for their investors at this point. Apple is incredibly bad …

The big news is the 32gb RAM in the 13” mbp. Amazing that a small form factor is starting to be treated like a real computing device by Apple.

Their website said “Bangkok”. I’ve traveled all over Asia and Europe without this problem.

AirAsia is a flaming disaster. I remember booking a flight out of Bangkok. Well, it turns out that I actually booked a flight out of the once named Bangkok airport, which isn’t act…

I mean, Computer Science is practiced at Google. Shooting from the hip and excusing it as craftsmanship is generally frowned upon.

What? I started using Google in high school (‘99) because the teachers said it was good... and they were right.